I Just endured reading Trump's full speech [1] (sorry
I couldn't bear to watch it), particularly his reference to Iran having
"fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror". It's absolutely
stunning in its flight from reality considering "official"
Washington's role being the primary perpetrator-along with his host Saudi
Arabia- responsible for "fueling the sectarian conflict and terror"
in the world.

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In case you didn't take the time to see or read it here's a
few choice excerpts from the "Donald's" speech-with a few rejoinders
in parenthesis.

"Above all, America seeks peace-not
war" (This is simply contradicted by US policies and actions precipitating
unnecessary, unending wars while avoiding peace at all cost. Real peace would be
a mortal wound to the existing military/industrial/political complex. So peace
is the last thing America, as represented by "official" Washington wants
anywhere in the world).

"our vision is one of peace, security and
prosperity-in the region and in the world" (the truth is America seeks
war, not peace for all the reasons in the rejoinder above).

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"partnership" with all the heads of
state in attendance (That's shorthand for accepting Washington's hegemony over
you. Shut up and do as you're told).

"Peace in the Middle East" (Stop
initiating wars in the Middle East. Stop supporting Israel's apartheid policies
in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel's illegal settlement policy in the Palestinian
West Bank and negotiate with Hamas, the legitimately elected entity of
Palestinian's in Gaza).

Locating the "Global Center for Combating
Extremist Ideology" and "defeating terrorism and the ideology that
drives it" (Incredibly to be located in Saudi Arabia, the center of
"Wahhabism", Sharia Law and the country that helped spawn ISIS in
Syria and Iraq).

Linking "ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas"
( Linking them all is absurd. As if they're allies and working in joint
operations. ISIS is Sunni but separate from Sunni al Qaeda terrorists who are
often in conflict with each other. Hezbollah is Lebanese Shiite that came into
existence fighting against the Israeli invasion in 2006 and now has its
fighters in Syria opposing the US backed proxy insurgents. Hamas is Sunni came
to existence in Gaza winning those elections there in 2006. It is not
recognized by the Israeli's or the US because of its opposition to Israeli
apartheid policies in Gaza and the West Bank. This lack of recognition is proof
the Israeli's don't want peace in Gaza or the West Bank with the Palestinian's).

In light of reality and those rejoinders mentioned above here's
a short thumbnail sketch of recent history, just going back to the US invasion
of Iraq in March 2003 revealing it was "official" Washington's
policies and actions as the primary catalysts "fueling the fires of
sectarian conflict and terror".

Along with "Dubya" Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 his
viceroy in charge Paul Bremer in one fell swoop summarily dismissed Saddam
Hussein's 400,000 Sunni dominated army along with the country's civil servants-
who were required to take an oath to Saddam's Baath Party in order to get these
jobs- immediately creating the Sunni
insurgency against the American occupation.

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Then with US sponsored Iraqi elections bringing majority
Shiite control of the government, the Sunni Arab Iraqi minority, some 25% of
the Iraqi population found itself under Iraqi Shiite domination and persecution
sparking the "sectarian conflict" which barely existed under Saddam's
regime with many Sunni and Shiite Arabs intermarrying.

And what was Shiite Iran's role in all the sectarian
divisions convulsing in Iraq? Counseling non violence, trying and eventually
succeeding in toning down Shiite Imam Muqtada al Sadr's fiery rhetoric against
the American occupation and getting his Shiite militia's to stop attacking Iraqi
Sunni citizens.

So Iran had essentially no role in creating the Sunni-Shiite
sectarian divide in Iraq- although it did support the Shiite dominated
government hoping it could bring some stability to the war torn country.

As for Syria, Washington in 2011 using the CIA in concert
with Saudi Arabia, the Gulf monarchies and Turkey trained, equipped and funded
proxy, jihadist militant mercenaries to enter Syria from Turkey who easily co-opted
whatever indigenous Syrian resistance existed in its opposition to Syrian
President Bashar Assad to fight against Assad's Syrian Arab army. Assad is an Alawite,
an offshoot of Shiite Islam and a close ally with Iran.